Performing On The Synthstrom Deluge

Over the weekend I played my first live set on the Deluge for the lofi festival (lofi-festival.com/). In this video, I go over how I used the Deluge to plan and perform a live set. Watch the set here: • Live at lofi-festival....
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[@chris.dillon]

The auto captions on YT said “hi this is jeremy from red beans recording” and I don’t hate it completely.

[@WasabiNoise]

Red Beans mean Dorayaki

[@simondanielssonmusic]

RMR should definitely get a cooking show channel called Red Beans Recording.

[@sprb4725]

@@simondanielssonmusic maybe his cat can do some cooking....

[@rainbow_mess_music]

disappointment that that's sparkling water and not a can of red beans on the desk :(

[@tinywires]

On another video, the KZbin AI decided to refer to a Digitakt as "dick attacks from election". So now that is exclusively how I refer to the box.

[@MrPisster]

Seeing how you prepare for a set and write out a cheat sheet was extremely valuable. So many videos on gear but few on workflow and practical performance advice for electronic musicians.

[@maunstermusic]

First, I love hearing your music. Second, these tech walk throughs are super helpful not just from the the "I'm plugging this into that." aspect, but more of the the way you are thinking about things and the problem solving we can use in different scenarios.

[@MidlifeSynthesist]

Dude thank you so much for this! Although I appreciate tutorials that show you how to use a device, this is an insight in how you perform and make music with it, and that is priceless. I cannot thank you enough for letting us have a little peak inside your wonderfully creative brain. Best wishes!

[@artificiusintelligence4996]

Love the practical showcase and walkthrough. Great music paired with a great run down of a performance and cudos for full disclosure…loving it.

[@thomasswoodward]

Jeremy. You're a talented dude and your uploads are inspirational. Thanks for what you do.

[@atmajpasalkar9225]

Keep posting it breaks the monotony of quarantine nicely

[@Dazz1806]

Jeremy that was fabulous. Thank you for a brilliant real world walk through. I needed to see that. I have to order one now

[@andreaskafer2474]

Thanks a lot Jeremy, cant wait to see the Deluge Videos on how you actually made it. Was always hoping that more Deluge will come, and here we go !! Stay Safe everybody out there ^^

[@quentin1838]

Another great video. Very informative. I liked how you tried different performing options ! And great recovery on that last song !

[@mattslumwormreyes]

Thanks for making this video fam. Listened to the set 3 times yesterday.

[@RedMeansRecording]

My pleasure :) really glad you enjoyed it.

[@The5thVolt]

Just watching this now and learning so much about performing with the Deluge. I really love your story of how you f*cked up your performance with the pitch knob. I think these "war" stories are really valuable to hear for beginners like myself.

[@BenODen]

My collection of rad gear tutorials by Jeremy is growing. Such a great behind the scene for your process!

[@BenuTuber]

Thanks for uploading this! I just can't get enough of the Deluge. Such a brilliant machine!

[@RedMeansRecording]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@BenuTuber]

Red Means Recording I’m really looking forward to you releasing the banked videos on the tracks!

[@shualiko]

Really great video. Thank you! I’m a deluge beginner and this really is helpful.

[@waidelemos]

I just went to see you screw up at the end of your set. You caught it so quickly and sorted it out like a boss... Excellent work!

[@peacefulpigeon7254]

Thanks so much for a really insightful and clear video - and lovely music too - great tip to use the iPad as a guide I’ve had a Deluge for a few weeks now and was scratching my head trying to remember which track was which when reloading songs!

[@MUSICofDMI]

Getting a deluge makes so much more sense to me now, thanks for this! Got to see it ages ago as it's made locally and now I can actually afford one

[@djoy38]

Incredible brother. You really have it!

[@DavidFrostbite]

This whole time when you're leading up to "the mistake", I thought you meant when you accidentally crunched the volume all the way down and back up. I had no idea that you lost a drum line! I thought you were setting up a hihat live on purpose, it actually fit the vibe of the set really well.

[@Fractalfrog]

You continue to inspire me! Thank you (and your big Phat Pants)

[@brutaldeluxe88]

Super informative! really useful to see and hear about these three performance types; it can be tough to find a starting point for a performance when there's so many options available, it's easy to over-think it and not get started. Thanks Jeremy!

[@SCOTTHSUMUSIC]

I've been trying to find a hardware solution for doing live solo electro rock sets and this kind of performance break down is exactly what I've been looking for. Thanks for making this vid!

[@MilesKvndra]

Super interesting, thanks for the breakdown!

[@Soundwrecker]

Very helpful, thanks Jeremy.

[@TheLordTimi]

Very informative and helpful video. Thank you 🙏

[@bigdap100]

As an audio nerd, I smiled as he explained the compression/envelope follower.

[@ericpeters0n]

Lots of cool tips and good music in here as always, thanks! Also: - Heat doesn't sound bad as a compressor. - You're impressively fluid on the isomorphic keyboard!

[@kalubandali2241]

Great Video, Deluge looks sweet

[@va941]

Just popped in for a like, view and a comment, just for that lovely thumbnail. All good things for everybody💖

[@arijuna_music]

You sir, are cool and an inspiration. Awesome breakdown 👍

[@MisterMajister]

Great as always! There will always be f ups during live performances I guess but that's why it's fun!

[@willswitchcraft]

Just came back to rewatch..........Your videos are still about the best I've seen on the Deluge, after all this time........ a w e s o m e

[@chumprock]

ASMR Jeremy: "Oooh, Trail mix!" MONCH MONCH MONCH *SLURRRRP*

[@RobinJamesEricBond]

I need to take a break from these videos now, i literally can't stand eating noises ._. essentially this: duckduckgo.com/?q=misophonia&atb=v215-1_r&ia=news I had never heard Jeremy eat anythign in a video before which was great.. Now I have trust issues.

[@TobiTorbm]

@@RobinJamesEricBond I had to stop the video at this point, because I hate eating noises more than anything else, why are people recording this it is disgusting

[@bs9863]

@@TobiTorbm people are so self-important and unaware they think its cute to not edit that gross shit out.

[@vmppvm8763]

@@TobiTorbm checking in a year later to note that I too had to instantly close the video at that point

[@divadwithingtin9332]

Let us spare a thought for the kings of the gong people.

[@melokit-music]

Very very very useful, thank you very much !!! I have already tried this stem system in the Deluge with some small sync annoyances. I wonder if the markers in ableton would not be useful for that .. But it motivates me to try again for a live set! Super great video thank you again 😉

[@phils9333]

Helpful video Jeremy. Love the deluge, it's a breed apart imo. I've found myself using a BSP with it more and mapping drums to it for rolling and improv hits as well as otheer mutes and knob tweeks! Oooerrr 😆

[@80iesDude45]

«Red means OFF» says «Red means Recording» ;-) Thanks for the insights, nice Live-Set.

[@AnalogKitchen]

Ooooh, Tasty stuff! Nice info!

[@leandromiquet4820]

So generous, thanks!

[@shadowhenge7118]

I get my deluge tomorrow... Can't wait.

[@sykromsmile6303]

Great video

[@youremostwelcome]

Thank you Jeremy.

[@alfonta]

Extraordinarily

[@KrisBarton432]

Great video!! Your Lo-Fi set is what sold me on the Deluge, and I love it \m/

[@markotik2]

Thanks for explaining the process you went through recovering from the little pitch accident you had when playing live. Really cool upload... is last years set on KZbin at all ? Cheers ✌️

[@ea5e95]

Ooh, that harp beat though!

[@framelabor]

Thanks for an informative vid Jeremy - i think I might adapt your idea of a google sheet w/ matching color coding as a reference (i've been scribbling in my notebook instead, which is cool but unwieldy). Also havent had much of a play w/ arranger view yet but feel empowered to try it now (gawd, i LOVE my deluge). Would you know if effect automation is possible in arranger mode? Also: need to stock up on trail mix, yum 🤤

[@Merthalophor]

That was amazing! Do more of these. I don't make electronic music at all, but it's fascinating to see how it's done. Also, clearly what happened to you wasn't considered when building this tool. I'm sure they'll correct it (I'm having a mild suspicion that Synthhstrom's recognition in part motivated this video).

[@ToyKeeper]

This was very informative, and showed useful info I haven't found elsewhere. There's no substitute for seeing a talented artist show how it's actually used in practice. At some point, it'd also be cool to hear your thoughts on Deluge vs a DAW as a tool for recording and arranging clips to make songs. The Deluge is obviously far less powerful, but for fairly simple songs where advanced DAW features aren't needed, how do they compare?

[@alexcarroll3073]

Ahh, Costco brand La Croix a true man of taste... like myself.

[@TristanBaldi]

Great vid! I ordered my Deluge, waiting for it! Just a question the sound you get while playing on the isomorphic keyboard at 10:03 is a preset that comes with the deluge or a sample? Or a sample modified with Deluge synth maybe? Very curious about that one! Thanks. Gorgeous sound by the way!

[@duelinmarkers1]

I wonder if you'd end up back in time if you got CUSTOM1 pitch back to half-way (flashing) and then shift-launch, shift-launch to remove and relaunch as if from beginning. I've never done a workflow with stems. Very good video about a very good performance! Thank you!

[@joetrotta3331]

Jeremyyyyyy. I don't want the Deluge. I don't need the Deluge. I haven't even watched this video yet. But between the live set and this video, you're gonna end up making me buy a Deluge. ;)

[@roryjineffect]

I feel this all too much. I am a FL Studio person, starting to dive into hardware and the workflow looks great. The depth of it seems awesome.

[@troyouttram]

Such an interesting looking device. I’m seriously considering getting one. I have an ipad for my main form of creating music today and I’m sick of screens. Do you think something like this is a good way to go and make music as opposed to Machine, Digitak , polyend? I only have midi controllers currently no hardware synths or sequencers. Thanks and glad i subscribed to your great channel :)

[@ew2b]

nice video as always. what monitors do you use

[@Bumslie187]

I was interested in your notes on the iPad. Did you have the tracks and their corresponding colors on there so you would know which tracks were doing what? And was there other info on there like what effects to use and when?

[@7177YT]

Awesome breakdown, I actually thought about asking you to make one after watching the performance, and voila! (: What's happening in your 'effect tracks' are those risers and one shots and stuff like that? Do you bother recording automation for clips? If so, do you feel that having automation on parameters is clashing with your ability to tweak them live? Cheers! ...also if you ever get into Deluges looper, I'd like to see your take on it. (:

[@RedMeansRecording]

I'll tackle the looper at some point. As for fx, yes. Mostly samples though I'll use a white noise synth instance with automation sometimes as a riser.

[@invis648]

15:52 “(music) nothing’s gonna change that, nothing’s gonna change that”...”if you want to change that part of your arrangement...”

[@bentwizard6598]

The sound of you drinking hurt me hahaha. Almost changed the video 😆

[@djbrunomalta]

Hello merci Jeremy big up from Suisse

[@paddyrapp]

CORRECTION: At 7:05 he says "red means off, green means on" but of course that is untrue. Red means recording.

[@squelette20]

Thank you very much for this really informative video! Sorry if you addressed it, but I thought your synth and pad sounds were very nice and I was wondering wether they were made with the Deluge's synth engine or if you used homemade samples that you loaded in the machine.

[@RedMeansRecording]

Some are samples and some are synths. It really depends on the sound.

[@damiansnyder5504]

thx for the video and your insights mate! I just wondered how you changed your songs using the deluge in your live set. You probably didn't wait until every song finished then load a new one but rather made the set in one piece. You didn't mention. Would be nice to know how. Good luck with your new employment, enjoy!

[@RedMeansRecording]

I did wait and then load

[@livelifeimprovisationallim8314]

U should be able to use undo function to get the general pitch back in place quickly..

[@constantinflux]

Did you ever find out how to nuke THAT knob or custom 1?

[@Nosoultosell]

I just checked out your performance and was wondering if you couldn't just create each song in the same project moving down the page and then adjust the tempo as you transition into the next song. Does that make sense? And if so, is that possible? I just picked up a Deluge, so not fully up to speed on all of its' capabilities. Nice job on your live set btw.

[@specialk1287]

It's been a few years, would you still recommend the deluge? I'm planning on getting the deluge and maybe one synth. And those roland compacts just cuz they look really fun

[@OscillatorSink]

7:05 - I feel lied to. All this time.

[@RedMeansRecording]

Same

[@julesetro]

quick question Good Sir, did you have a video up on using Deluge kits for playing live? I could have sworn you had it up and now it's gone? Unless it wasn't you :)

[@Diamond_Eyes_24]

I know it’s not desktop but like to hear Deluge thru your Silver Bullet... did u try?

[@hamponjitney2clowntranspmo247]

Asking around on different videos now - Is the lack of multi-track output a drawback for performing live with the Deluge? Wouldn't running all it's tracks through one output sound not good live?

[@LukePetruzzi]

QUESTION BELOW: This is incredible and so inspiring and helpful

[@RedMeansRecording]

I don't think so, or if there is it's such a long stem it's almost impossible to dial it. Also time stretching kills the cpu

[@LukePetruzzi]

@@RedMeansRecording Ahh good to know, thanks for the reply. I didn't even think of the cpu - I'll have to do some experimenting!!

[@MrVil1]

Can you explain (maybe in another video), how you make transitions from one song into another?

[@RedMeansRecording]

I don't!

[@dreamsaremaps]

Meat LFOs. Fucking still thinking about that lol. Brilliant.

[@danbocook]

Quick question on your stem tracks, I typically use the Audio tracks on the Deluge instead of building kits, do you have a reason or advantage for putting stems in kits still vs. using audio tracks? Biggest challenge I have with the Deluge is getting a good blend while transitioning songs with BPM changes...stems make that even more difficult as pitch shifts and what not occur. Any tips?

[@RedMeansRecording]

I haven't even attempted to transition smoothly between songs and honestly the reason I'm not using audio tracks is because I don't know them yet.

[@danbocook]

@@RedMeansRecording Yeah, my concept that I haven't devoted a lot of time to is that you'd take the final audio track or clip of Song A and put it as the opening track/clip of Song B and then transition into the other tracks/clips of Song B...but due to BPM shifts...the track/clip of Song A you carry over distorts or pitch shifts to Song B's BPM. Messing with Independent and Linked Pitch works sometimes...but it becomes tedious and difficult at times. Other option is to have a seperate sampler with the sample on it that you can "DJ style" fade and transition to keep the sample from being in Deluge's BPM sync. Idk, I need to spend more time trying to tackle it!

[@djintoku7551]

youre awesome

[@DayflightTrok]

Is the Deluge more confusing like the Octatrack at the beginning?

[@MattDiamondMDE]

Mind expanding, here i was thinking that Red Means Recording! I was a fool. 7:05

[@markcotter5949]

This is all new to me but I was thinking of a deluge into a DJ mixer out to an apogee quartet to a a73 to an elgato capture card? Will that work,?

[@RedMeansRecording]

Should

[@usanomad]

Protip: Synthstrom is raising the price of these in February. If you buy one now its actually worth more in the future lol.

[@miss-sagemoon]

Are you going to release any of the songs you did for the stream on Spotify?

[@RedMeansRecording]

Check the video description for links to the albums these appear on if they are released.

[@Steve_643]

Deluge reminds me of a hardware Abelton Live

[@RedMeansRecording]

in a lot of ways, yes

[@bestsample3744]

Actually. You could probably get it synced again by slowing it down(or speeding it up). This is how dj's beatmatch. Except, of course, they do that within their headphones and not broadcast the process live. Lol.

[@RedMeansRecording]

Exactly

[@vincentjanse]

So it's a really nice monome?

[@healthyhappyhero]

Deluge or OP1?

[@davidschwartzguitar]

You know what makes for great studio food? Dark chocolate chips, walnuts, and dried cherries. It’s a solid mix.

[@RedMeansRecording]

Mmmmm

[@bs9863]

@@RedMeansRecording you know what makes for a great video? editing out content that isn't relevant to the videos topic, like eating and taking a shit

[@WildlifeZambezi]

Smack my lips up!

[@urbannpa]

Where did you get the 1/4 in. cables. Tired of Hosa's.

[@RedMeansRecording]

GLS or seismic audio

[@nicryan7621]

Where did you get those cool coloured leads?

[@RedMeansRecording]

Amazon I think. GLS cables?

[@nicryan7621]

@@RedMeansRecording awesome, thanks! Great video by the way. I watched the stream and it was totally awesome, didn't even notice the mistake in the last song :)

[@MariaCalore]

Better unlink speed and pitch on stems of that kind!

[@RedMeansRecording]

Smart

[@MariaCalore]

@@RedMeansRecording I do my best 🤓

[@volod3mir]

Yes it’s quite annoying how much effort you need to spend for samples not to time stretch

[@tuftyindigo]

"Tails are important" OwO notices ur furry reference. Do you deliberately choose the names of cuts on the Deluge so the first four letters are funny taken out of context? BTW, I want you to know that I have never noticed any of these things like lip smacking or "old man hands" until you point them out. Some people clearly take different messages from your videos than others.

[@RedMeansRecording]

:3

[@almightyEsquilax]

I sure as hell noticed Jeremy making romantic use of the Artiphon Instrument 1, but not any of this other stuff.

[@chipwillis]

Sony A73 for the win!

[@KrisCadwell]

Were you able to reassign that problematic knob, or does the deluge not allow that?

[@RedMeansRecording]

it totally allows it!

[@KrisCadwell]

@@RedMeansRecording Nice. I am strongly considering buying one. Performing with the octatrack just hasn't felt right to me.

[@nickw4898]

Do you use Streamlabs OBS or normal OBS?

[@RedMeansRecording]

Regular?

[@nickw4898]

@@RedMeansRecording Gotcha, normal OBS has the black logo, streamlabs has a soft green one. It's just nice because it has a prettier UI / ability to control donation and subscription notifications cleanly / etc Was just wondering!

[@Dmyra]

5:08 Zero Vocal tics this mini rant was so perfect. haters gonna hate jiji

[@tmaddoxl]

So my dillema: I have a Deluge and a Digitone and I"m waffling between buy the Heat or a Digitakt. Can' afford both....What to do....

[@dillipphunbar7924]

nice lols

[@museyoucoulduse3961]

I just can not think how can you perform with 7 knobs - I don't, but now you let me think that I could if I want.